Abstract
ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the wearing of identification wristbands in newborns admitted in a public maternity hospital, regarding patient safety. Method: descriptive study, of the survey type, carried out in a reference public maternity hospital, through observations and interviews. Two hundred and sixty newborns were included. Results: 15.4% of the newborns had no identification wristbands, and 18% of the wristbands had data that did not match with the medical records. 90.9% of the wristbands were easily accessible for checking; however, in 80.9% of the cases, the wristband was not checked before the nursing procedures, and the mother or caregiver was not instructed on wearing the wristband in 76.8% of respondents. Conclusion and implications for practice: there should be training of the nursing team and other health professionals on the placement and daily checking of wristbands, considering international protocols and recommendations regarding patient safety.
Highlights
Within the policies to improve health care safety, the World Health Organization prioritizes the proper identification of patients with strategies that advise health care facilities to implement systems
Objective: to analyze the wearing of identification wristbands in newborns admitted in a public maternity hospital, regarding patient safety
The Joint Commission International (JCI) and the WHO require compliance with international patient safety aims, the first of which is to identify the patient in order to prevent failures.[1,2]
Summary
Within the policies to improve health care safety, the World Health Organization prioritizes the proper identification of patients with strategies that advise health care facilities to implement systems. Due to national and international patient safety policies and programs in recent years, the use of identification wristbands since birth, the policy of not separating mothers and newborns during hospitalization and assigning a health record to all newborns (NB) resulted in a significant improvement for the identification of the NB. Despite this progress, there are still failures to be rectified in the system that can cause injuries to the NB.[4]
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